Sir John the Net Knight said:
Edit: Scratch that joke, it'll scare children...
[sub][sub][sub][sub]Actually, I just dun wanna get banned for NSFW jokes.[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]
Instead, I'll ask if this now makes Suchong a miniature giant space hamster fancy rat.
Wabblefish said:
Nice comic I guess but it seems a little harsh lol, it was only one retcon and this is just more ammuninition for the old school Rpg mega fanboys to use.
Well, actually it's not only one retcon. This is just one of the most popular ones, because it's well known. See, a lot of people wound up killing Leliana on "evil" playthroughs, and it was also something that typically occured in the process of unlocking the Reaver specialization since she was a mainstay of a lot of people's parties. Pretty much any character you could have killed in the first game has been retconned back to life. Zevran, Justice, and others.
On top of this Anders was clearly not gay in "Awakenings" despite the jokes about what ear his earring was in.
In short, it's a matter of there being a complete lack of consistincy, and honestly I think it was done out of sloppiness more than anything personally.
As far as David Gaider goes, perhaps I'm not getting a joke, but honestly he's been getting pretty solidly curb stomped. I suppose a lot of people with the right (or should I say left) politics cheered for his pro-gay declarations, but it's important to note that the gays themselves have been upset by the portrayals in the game. On top of this, when I heard about these occurances here on The Esacapist I went to the forums to check out the threads and comment only to find them locked.
To put it bluntly, despite him trying to turn it into a political statement and get the left wing user base behind him, I think in the end the way the homosexuality was done in "Dragon Age II" was like so much in the game, simply a matter of sloppy game design. It was easier to make ever character bi-sexual than to work out which characters went which way (so to speak). Just as it was easier to throw waves of spawning opponents at the player than to carefully balance out each encounter tactically so you could actually do things like use choke points and tanking and the like, and just as it was easier to keep re-using the same maps again and again, AND just as it was easier to resurrect Dragon Age: Origins characters that should be dead rather than creating a new character or sequence of events to replace their involvement if they weren't around.
So basically, the guy showed up and tossed off a response or two, and there were some comments after that, but then we had the threads locked. He's not successfully "fighting the universe", it's pretty much like it is every time a dev responds. If you look past any political kudos you might want to give him, it's actually pretty sad overall, esecially seeing as I don't even think he really deserves them since I don't think there was any carefully conceived statement intended in the game to be honest.
I'll also point something else out, even if you forgive them not being able to actually fulfill the ambitions of the series by going so far as to create alternative characters to replace the fallen, they didn't even go so far as to alter lines of dialogue to reflect what surviving characters would have been liable to think. To use Leliana as an example, her specific desicians as "Agent Nightengale" and attitudes make no sense if she was in a romance with a Gray Warden who was a mage.
Honestly, it was a quick, sloppy cash in, and I think they wanted to toss out as many referances to the first game as possible and assumed fanboys would just mindlessly embrace it. The "everyone is bi-sexual" thing is not only an easy way out, but also gives Bioware something politically correct to trot out... Bioware made some comments a whiole back that there would be no gay or bi-sexual characters/romances in the upcoming "Old Republic". I think that was here on The Escapist, and was never changed. That irritated some people, and honestly I think they are willing to take whatever PC-cred they can get at the moment, and will have this to point to when inevitably someone makes complaints about "Old Republic Online".
